Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

Flavio wrote:
> 2009/10/13 andy baxter <andy@...>:
>
>> Are you logging in using ssh? If so, this might be the problem - the ssh
>> server is often configured by default to refuse the root user.
>>
> No Andy,
> I would like to login as root in the classic way.... start uml, get
> the login prompt
> and type root as username.
>
> This is what happens:
>
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
> Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 debian-lenny tty0
>
> debian-lenny login: root <---------- I type root and even though
> I didn't insert any password, it gives me Login incorrect!!!! -_-
>
> Login incorrect
> debian-lenny login:
>
The only thing I can think of is to mount the filesystem as a loopback
(without uml running, or you will trash the filesystem), and have a look
at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
Look to see if anything is different between the root user and the one
you created.
Apart from this, I don't know.
andy